Dien Bien (VNA) – The northern Dien Bienprovincial Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) and its counterparts fromthe northern Lao provinces of Luang Prabang, Udomsay, and Phongsaly held talksin Dien Bien Phu city, Dien Bien province on September 12 to share workexperience.

Leaders of both sides affirmed the traditional friendship,special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation founded and fostered by PresidentsHo Chi Minh and Kaysone Phomvihane, as well as  generations of the two countries’ people and leadersof the two Parties and States.

They pledged to enhance exchanges and voluntary activitiesto offer assistance to residents in border and disadvantaged areas in the fourprovinces, contributing to further deepening Vietnam-Laos and Laos-Vietnamspecial border relations.

The provincial HCYU vowed to enhance training for youthunion officials in three northern Lao localities.

The Lao guests expressed their wishes that Dien Bien would paymore attention to their students who are pursuing education in local schools.

Dang Thanh Huy, Secretary of the provincial HCYU, said overthe past few years, youths from Dien Bien and northern Lao provinces haveconducted practical, specific, and effective activities such as holding exchangesto share experience; protecting boundaries and border markers; maintainingsocial security and safety; fighting trans-border crimes; preventing hostileforces from sowing division; and offering mutual support in diverse areas.

Following the talks, the two sides signed the talk minuteswith commitments to further strengthening education campaigns on bilateraltraditional friendship, fighting crimes in border areas, and facilitating theoperations of young entrepreneurs.–VNA